Example sentences of "[vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 2 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 3 | A notice , its spelling primly corrected , hangs on the fence and says : ‘ This was the arrangement on the grave of Patrick Kavanagh from 1967 to 19th August 1989 when the grave was forcibly opened and the arrangement scattered . |
| 4 | Although in some cases gonorrhoea may be suspected from the symptoms or signs of the disease , in the final analysis the diagnosis hangs on the identification of the gonococcus , either directly in a sample of mucus or other material from an infected site by microscopic examination , or by its growth in the laboratory after inoculation of such material on appropriate culture media . |
| 5 | A nation 's survival as a free , independent , and self-respecting entity hangs on the ability of its people to nourish and protect themselves ; to provide the means of building and maintaining healthy minds in healthy bodies , and to develop the enterprise , resilience , and determination to surmount natural disasters and adapt to ever-changing conditions . |
| 6 | ‘ Well I Wonder ’ releases the eardrum pressure and hangs on the line ‘ Please , keep me in mind ’ complete with the synthetic rain of an outsider 's view of Manchester . |
| 7 | The pot hangs on the end of a rope and when in contact with the water makes a disinfecting solution of chlorine . |
| 8 | Few of the facts are disputed , while everything hangs on the intention behind the actions . |
| 9 | This may be so , but is not necessarily so , and nothing particular hangs on the fact . |
| 10 | A picture that hangs on the wall is , by definition , isolated from both room and people . |
| 11 | The insect jerks itself free and hangs on the empty pupa case , its body trembling . |
| 12 | Nothing substantial hangs on the decision . |
| 13 | The sun-and-moon chart hangs on the kitchen cupboard , where we can consult it . |
| 14 | ‘ Another thing that we 've had a lot of use from was the baby bouncer ; it 's the type that hangs on the door frame . |
| 15 | And in the pine-clad kitchen littered with baby 's bottles , an icon of Jesus hangs on the wall . |
| 16 | One of the keys to his very particular philosophy hangs on the wall of his office at Scottish Life . |
| 17 | The CIT thanks Transport Development Group for the fine portrait of Philip Henman which now hangs on the first floor landing at 80 Portland Place . |
| 18 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 19 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 20 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 21 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 22 | But he will think long and hard before he again takes on the United board . |
| 23 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 24 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 25 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 26 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 27 | Table Tennis Douglas takes on the Preans . |
| 28 | The purchaser who relies solely on this mortgage report takes on the risk of unexpected building defects . |
| 29 | Against Moses ' expectations he also takes on the task of feeding his people . |
| 30 | Back in America , Chaka Khan and Ce Ce Peniston offer very different takes on the role of the soul diva . |